To The Editor:
I wonder how many people found themselves in the same dilemma as I did when filling out the census form. I even called the census bureau for assistance, but was just read to from a prescribed list of answers, which did not help.

My husband and I were in our Florida home when we received the census form. We were told that we had to fill out the form with the address where we were living on the day we received the form.
I indicated I did not want my small community in Delaware County to lose us in the census count, but was told we had to put down our Florida address.

To The Editor:
What about the kids?
Back in 2000 the voters in 19 school districts passed a building project for the ONC BOCES system. One reason was to add space to the two occupational centers for our local students and their education.

Not everyone can or should go on to college. In our rural area there are few opportunities for students who fall between the cracks. With all the other cuts that are happening in our society today, a decent and equitable education should not be one of them.

To The Editor:
I am writing in response to the letter stating “America needs nuclear plants for electric.” We do not, there are so many clean alternatives that can be used.
They stated Solar & Wind are unpredictable, are they when used together? No.
Everywhere you look there are springs, streams, reservoirs and dams that flow regularly that could be generating clean electric.

To The Editor:
My first few weeks at the Onteora Central School District have been very full with meeting everyone at the different schools, dealing with the day to day running of the district, preparing the budget during a difficult financial time, and, of course, the snow days and delays.

Please know that it is never an easy decision to open on time, delay or close when the weather is bad. Safety is the only reason to keep the school buses off the road. However, as a result of this challenging winter season, we have lost four days of spring break, April 18 through April 21.

To the Editor:
A Native American proverb: “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can’t eat money.”
From The Daily Star editorial 3/12/2011: “We appreciate the efforts of the DEC to tackle this problem [Gas Drilling], and to attempt to craft regulations that will protect New Yorkers. But nothing the agency will say can change the fact that the gas industry has shown it has no idea how to conduct horizontal drilling without contaminating our aquifers and drinking water and polluting our air.”

To The Editor:
With the recent events that have taken place in Japan, earthquake, tsunami and an accident at Japan’s three nuclear power plants, the world is taking another look at the safety of nuclear energy. I welcome that, providing it’s based on facts, not fear. Let’s not do what we did with Three Mile Island. Let’s not stop building nuclear power plants because someone thinks they are not safe.

Let’s learn from Japan the way we did from Three Mile Island and build a better nuclear plant.

To The Editor:
It is difficult for people far away from America to evaluate a new phenomenon like the Tea Party movement in our country. It seems, on the face of it, to be a good idea but the lack of “punch” in its main message, the vagueness of its policies, the avoidance of the most urgent concerns confronting America (such as the tidal wave of immigration) and the apparent lack of ringing charisma in its leadership — these give pause for doubt but perhaps it is still the early days.